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Address Quality and Deduplication for SAP

Anchor Software uniquely offers a SAP Certified "Plug and Play" Address Quality and Deduplication capability that was developed specifically for SAP R/3, SAP ERP, SAP CRM, and SAP NetWeaver. These capabilities have been used by many of the largest companies in the US and Worldwide for many years. This address quality functionality is available for over 240 countries. The products are necessary and essential to assure that addresses are accurate and records are not duplicated.

The support of the customers is a central concern of strategic business planning with regard to market transparency and the interchangeability of products and services. Efficient customer orientation and comprehensive information management are therefore indispensable when it comes to gaining decisive competitive advantages; as such high-quality data and information preparation plays an increasingly important role in strengthening corporate performance and value creation. This particularly applies to the professional administration and maintenance of address information because these are the linchpins of any customer and market relationship.

With its open application concept, mySAP Business Suite supports the integration of Anchor Software’s external complementary software solutions. As a result, the addresses of prospective customers, customers, suppliers or partners administered in mySAP Business Suite can be optimally managed and kept “up-to-date”.

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